Spring 2025
Spring in 2025
Spring brings a sense of newness. The waking up after a cold winter where hibernation was preferred. Our rainfall was low however the temperature was very chilly. Spring is revitalising. As we come out of our winter woollies and begin the transition to lighter clothes, longer days, and living outdoors.
Spring in the Garden
Our gardens become covered in emerald lawns, and the grass begins to grow, grow, and doesn’t seem to stop growing. Our lawn in Olinda seems to grow faster than it can be cut. Different flowers bloom, the rhododendrons bloom according to colour, and each year I think I will note which colour comes first but I never do! The Cherry Blossoms at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens attract hordes of visitors, and Tesselaars in Silvan begins their tulip festival.
With Spring comes an increase in wildlife activity alongside the blossoms. Watching the birds, particularly the magpies, swooping and singing is such a joy. Apparently, magpies get to know who lives in their territory and won’t swoop
Spring Cleaning
Spring Cleaning is the deep cleaning that some people do to their homes at the end of Winter. More than the usual clean, it includes windows, clearing off pantry shelves, dusting light fixtures, cleaning sliding doors tracks, curtains and drapes, carpets (move the furniture and clean under it rather than just clean around it), wash baseboards, door frames and walls. Declutter too, and send stuff off to the Op Shop, give it away or throw it out. Change the batteries on smoke detectors (Daylight savings is not too far away either in Victoria which is when they recommend you change batteries in smoke detectors), and maybe transition your wardrobe from deep winter. The wardrobe is a bit risky because, you know, Melbourne and multiple seasons in one day!
Spring Thinking
We begin to think of the end of the year and Christmas. Forming general plans and beginning to lock people down on where they will be on Christmas Day. It may come as a surprise to some members of the family, but Christmas food and present shopping can’t all be done on Christmas Eve. Of course, if you are hosting Christmas then there is usually extra housework to be done and possibly rooms prepared for overnight visitors.
Spring and Real Estate
Spring is notorious for being THE season of real estate. Houses on the market seem to double, sometimes triple overnight, and agents get excited about the potential cash injection into their bank accounts. Sellers love the effect Spring has on their gardens, blooming gardens frame a home with colour and hope after the dismal grey of Winter. Buyers love the variety of homes that become available. Savvy buyers would have been out and about since mid Winter, researching, and investigating, ready to jump when the right house comes along.
Spring really kicks off when the football ends, when winter truly gives up its season and cedes to Srping, and school holidays end. The excitement of the end of the school holidays because it means there is only one term left of school before the long Christmas break. For older students it means exam prep and stress.
Many home sellers decide that Spring is the perfect time to sell. It enables them to move into their new home preferably after Christmas and before the new school or work year begins. Metro Mellbourne takes summer seriously with most venturing back to the office mid January. The perfect time to settle into a new home and possibly a new area.
From Sold to Settled is often around 60 days, so planning when to go onto the market, and when to move in to your new home requires thinking backward. If we assume January 15 for Settlement, 60 days from sale date to settlement, 6 weeks on the market, 2 weeks to prepare marketing, and assuming you have decluttered, fixed, and are market ready, then calling in the advocate (me) should happen around NOW! That’s a shock to the system! Of course, it’s estimated time only and sometimes things progress faster or slower and it would be average times.
Solicitors and conveyancers take Christmas off, lenders work on skeleton staff, most agents are off from mid December to mid January particularly in Auction areas which makes planning crucial.
If you want to have a chat about timelines, market preparation, and agent selection then please call me. It’s quite a process particularly if you are unfamiliar with it. It takes more time than you think, more energy, stress and money than you think, and a real estate guide / advocate can really ease your path.
